Final thoughts

A much-improved second half, and probably a deserved draw. Both teams had a go at leading, and neither was very good at it – no surprise there, as Spurs have dropped 15 points this season having scored the opening goal, and Everton have dropped seven points from goals conceded in or after the 85th minute. If one team has the greater cause for regrets it'll have to be Everton, who played well and had an outstanding chance to win the match in the 89th minute, when Anichebe fluffed an excellent chance to win it.

In his post-match interview with ESPN, David Moyes is asked: "Was it a good point, or are you disappointed after leading?" He replies: "No, it was a good point. But I've got to say I'm disappointed after leading." So there you go then.

Cheers for reading, for all your emails, and for all your things with corners. Bye!

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Final score: Tottenham 2-2 Everton

90+5 mins: Loris claims Baines's free-kick, clears the ball and the referee completes proceedings with a final whistle. It's all over!

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90+4 mins: The ball is cleared, eventually, to Anichebe, who looks set to take it into the corner but feels a nudge in his back, goes to ground and wins a free-kick instead.

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90+4 mins: Sigurdsson turns and volleys a lazy left-footer that would have dribbled miles wide had it not deflected off a defender, and then dribbled miles wider. So at least Spurs got a corner.

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90+2 mins: Tottenham try to find a winner, but both Adebayor and Vertonghen are dispossessed in the penalty area. Everton then break, but Jelavic curls a feeble shot into the keeper's arms when he could have given Gibson a tap-in.

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90+1 mins: There will be four minutes of stoppage time, of which we have played one half.

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89 mins: Wonderful chance for Anichebe! He turns Dawson far too easily and Loris is hopelessly exposed. Had Anichebe got any height on his shot a goal would surely have been the result (unless he got too much height on it, of course, or the wrong kind of width), but instead he shoots into the keeper's legs.

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GOAL! Tottenham 2-2 Everton (Sigurdsson 87 mins)

A bit of invention in the box, and it all comes good for Spurs. Walker crosses low from the right, and Dempsey crucially dummies the ball. This gives Adebayor, behind him, the space he needs to control the ball, compose himself and curl the ball onto the near post, from which it rebounds into Sigurdsson's path.

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85 mins: In another corner of the capital, Sunderland have gone 1-0 up against Chelsea. In this one, it's substitution time: Mirallas comes off, and Steven Naismith replaces him.

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84 mins: Clint Dempsey's Gareth Bale impression is going OK. Sure, the goals haven't come, and the long-range shooting has been disappointing – but he's just been booked for simulation.

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83 mins: Everton have only had two shots on target today. They could have had another, as three players launch a 3-on-1 break, but the pass to Jelavic is badly overhit.

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83 mins: Mirallas slides the ball to Anichebe, who shoots over from 25 yards when really he should have looked for a pass.

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81 mins: He didn't actually nibble it with his mouth. Anyway, Sigurdsson does nothing much with the free-kick.

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81 mins: Mirallas is cautioned, the first time the referee has bothered with his book today, for nibbling at Parker's ankle.

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80 mins: Then Huddlestone surprises everyone by passing straight down the middle to Adebayor, whose shot is saved.

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79 mins: Tottenham's game plan is this: 1) give the ball to Huddlestone, in the vicinity of the centre-circle; 2) watch as he sprays the ball perfectly to the feet of a raiding full-back/wide midfielder; 3) turn gaze heavenward as Howard collects resulting shoddy cross.

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77 mins: Gibson fouls Parker to present Spurs with a useful free-kick, just outside the penalty area near the left touchline, but Sigurdsson's delivery isn't up to much. Which is a shame, because they don't really look like scoring from open play.

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75 mins: Since we last spoke Dembele has gone off, Tom Huddlestone has come on, and the home fans have booed loudly.

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73 mins: If you were given bonus points for running with the ball for quite a long way until you get into the penalty area and then don't do anything, or do something incredibly languid and useless, Adebayor would be a really good striker to have in your team. Anyway, here's a really good goal from another game entirely.

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70 mins: Everton are attacking rarely, but look threatening when they do. Anichebe's shot from the edge of the area is deflected just wide, when he might have played in Jelavic instead.

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67 mins: Adebayor runs from the halfway line into the penalty area, but his shot is predictably casual and easily dealt with by Howard.

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65 mins: Spurs want a goal here, and both Parker and Vertonghen have been crowded out or dispossessed in or around the penalty area in the last minute.

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63 mins: Liverpool have indeed been held to a goalless draw. "A dodecahedron is a solid that has 12 faces and 20 vertices but no 'corners' as such," pointofinformations Mark Taylor. "It's more of a sphere than a circle. An icosagon, however, is a flat shape with 20 corners."

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60 mins: Dempsey cuts in from the left and shoots low and hard and wide of the near post.

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56 mins: That really was a super save from Tim Howard, flinging out a hand to keep out Dembele's deflected shot a couple of minutes back. Very good indeed. "More corners than a bag of Rubik's cubes?" suggests Jeremiah Cullinane, who then justifies his analogy mathematically: "Rubik's cube is composed of 26 smaller cubes, each comprising 8 corners. 26 x 8 = 208 corners. A bag of Rubik's cubes = plenty of corners galore." That is a mathematically impressive analogy.

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55 mins: Liverpool, incidentally, are still drawing 0-0 at home to West Ham. "The update everyone was waiting for: I ferried over to Delaney's thanks very much," writes Elliot Carr-Barnsley. "It is indeed all that my dreams suggested."

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54 mins: Tottenham hit the bar! Dembele's shots from the edge of the penalty area is deflected, and then saved, and then smacks the crossbar!

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GOAL! Tottenham 1-2 Everton (Mirallas, 53 mins)

A lovely goal! Mirallas gets the ball from Anichebe, runs towards the penalty area, turns Caulker this way and that and then shoots low and hard across goal and in.

51 mins: Jelavic is getting ready on the touchline, suggesting that Anichebe hasn't run off his pre-half-time problem.

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50 mins: Coleman is brought down by Vertonghen on the touchline, but makes a meal of it and the referee is so unimpressed he awards Spurs a goal-kick.

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48 mins: The first shot of half two comes from Dempsey, 20 yards out. It isn't very good. "Roddy Forsyth (BBC radio correspondent for Scottish football) once described a match as having more corners than a dodecahedron (which is 20)," writes Mark O'Brien. But are the corners of a dodecahedron cornery enough to be corners? It's basically a circle, which is entirely corner-free. A square's corners you can't quibble with, those are very emphatically cornerish, but at some point they no longer are. That's the thing about corners.

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46 mins: Thirty-eight seconds into the half Adebayor bursts into the penalty area and you think, "surely not again". And then he's dispossessed. "There's a town in Nebraska called Corner," writes David Owen, "and its inhabitants I presume are known as Corners. But the last census put the population at 25, so probably fewer than a Grand Prix track."

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Peeeeeeeeep!

46 mins: They've only gone and restarted.

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Half-time

45+3 mins: The referee blows on his whistle to end a half that never really got going. Still, we've at least had a couple of goals – that's more than they can say at Anfield, where it remains goalless with a tad over 25 minutes to play.

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45+1 mins: We are already approaching the end of two minutes' stoppage time, and Dembele's cross from the right is curling into a testy area before Jagielka nodded it clear. Sigurdsson's corner is caught by Howard. "More corners than Liverpool claim to have turned in the past 8 years, perhaps?" offers Tom Atkins.

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45 mins: A first half short of coherent attacks, from the (second half of the) first minute until the last.

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41 mins: "More corners than an episode of The Wire," offers Henry Buckle-Loveless. Or on the website of an estate agent that specialises in newsagents, perhaps?

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39 mins: He feels better now. Though Jelavic is warming up, this looks a textbook case of see-it-through-to-half-time-itis.

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36 mins: "Tottenham have had more corners than a Grand Prix this season and scored just about zero," complains Mr_dresner, as Anichebe goes down seeking treatment. "If you can think of a better multi cornered analogy please do share!" Um, there are lots of corners in … um … a maze?

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32 mins: Extremely loud handball appeal from Tottenham! Dempsey runs to the byline and crosses; Gibson, five yards away, has both his hands in the air as the ball flies straight towards them and deflects away. The referee and/'or his assistant, rather brilliantly, spot that it in fact only hit his chest, but that was a stroke of luck for Everton.

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31 min: Tottenham this time curl a corner to the far post, and their player hitches a ride on a defender, but Dawson's header goes in the wrong direction.

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28 mins: Baines passes the ball to the feet of Anichebe in the penalty area, and though nothing comes of it immediately Spurs continue to allow far too many players far too much space until Dawson's full-blooded tackle on Osman ends the move and sends the ball all the way to the half-way line.

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26 mins: Walker goes himself, sprinting from the halfway line to the edge of the penalty area before spearing a shot wide of the near post.

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24 mins: Tottenham have improved these last few minutes from what, immediate goal asside, was an unconvincing opening, but Everton's goal remains a distant target. Holtby curls a 35-yarder high and wide.

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22 mins: The ball is sent high and long towards Walker … and sails two yards over his head. He leaps into the air in a vain effort to reach it, then punches it on its way into touch and launches a furious verbal volley at his errant-booted teammates.

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20 mins: So Manchester United and Everton are the Premier League's top two when it comes to points won from losing positions, hitting the woodwork and headed goals, three not obviously connected statistical categories.

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16 mins: The keeper might have wanted to deal with that cross, you'd have thought. Though it was a loopy old delivery, arching directly onto Jagielka's jet-powered forehead.

13 - Everton have now scored 13 headed goals in the PL this season, the joint-most along with Man Utd. Bonce.

GOAL! Tottenham 1-1 Everton (Jagielka, 15 mins)

It's a Leighton Baines corner from the right, sent curling to the far post, where Jagielka climbs above Vertonghen – with a hand on each shoulder for assistance – and heads down and in at the near post.

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13 mins: Dempsey carries the ball to the halfway line, and then pokes it beyond a very high indeed Everton defence. Adebayor, though, is offside.

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11 mins: Loris plays the ball to Dawson, just outside the penalty area, whose casual pass into midfield is cut out by Osman, whose shot goes wide, but is close enough to worry a few in white.

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9 mins: Adebayor has been first to every ball delivered into Everton's penalty area so far, the latest a longish throw-in from which nothing transpires.

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7 mins: Dembele gets a thwack in the ankle from Distin, and is now limping a little bit. Elliot Carr-Barnsley should head straight to Delayney's on Luard Road, Wanchai, reports Gary Knowles and Tom Rees, who tells me it's home of the Hong Kong Tottenham supporters' club. Anurag Pandey also suggests he checks out this handy-looking site. Consider yourself helped.

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4 mins: This is quite a creative run that Vertonghen's enjoying – much more of this and he'll make himself the most indispensable fantasy-league defensive purchase since Steve Bruce.

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GOAL! Tottenham 1-0 Everton (Adebayor, 34sec)

Vertonghen, fresh from his goal-and-assist performance last weekend but shoehorned into the left-back spot this time, curls in a nice low cross and Adebayor stretches out a leg to turn it into the net from six yards.

Jessie J is at the game, where she has been posing pitchside with a Spurs shirt and cropped, dyed-white hair. Not an obvious match: more than pretty much anything else in the whole world with the possible exception of banking, the Premier League is, in fact, about the money, money, money.

1.59pm BST

In the other Premier League game currently ongoing, Liverpool are fairly dominant but not yet actually winning against West Ham. Stewart Downing has limped off, which is probably good news for the home side.

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Help an MBMer dept: Elliot Carr-Barnsley would like to watch this game, and others like it, but he's in Hong Kong. "Can anyone recommend somewhere in Hong Kong for hot EPL viewing action?" he pleads. "I have to call it EPL because I'm abroad."

1.45pm BST

And here are your big match teams! And the news is: Clint Dempsey is the new Gareth Bale; Aaron Lennon is still injured; Michael Dawson is back from being left out; Kevin Mirallas's groin injury isn't so bad; and Ross Barkley is better than Nikica Jelavic, whatever the latter's recent record against Spurs.

Hello world!

Tottenham are not a one-man team, but Gareth Bale has done his best – which is pretty good, all things considered – to make himself indispensable. Spurs have won nine times this calendar year, and the blunderbuss-booted Welshman has scored in eight of those wins, failing only in the first. In all he's scored 13 goals in his last 14 games. But now he’s crocked, which means that today Everton can peck at the crusty bones of Tottenham’s lifeless, guileless, Baleless corpse like a murder (apparently the correct collective noun) of crows. If only Spurs had another midfielder capable of surging forward runs and incredible long-range goals. Er…

Also out for Spurs; Jermain Defoe. And perhaps Aaron Lennon. Not out for Everton: Nikica Jelavic, who has a 100% goalscoring record in league games against Spurs (that's two in two). Of the last 10 matches between these sides in all competitions six have been won by the home team (including the last four), three have been drawn and the away team has stolen the points on just one occasion, when a deflected Steven Pienaar shot – credited in the end as a Vedran Corluka own-goal – won the game for Everton back in November 2008.

If Everton win this they'd be just three points behind Spurs. Given the two teams' comparative spend on managers and players over the last five years or so, I'd suggest that each Everton point is at least 1.4 times more impressive than a Spurs point, and that they're therefore already nearly 15 points ahead on a one v one table of justice and truth. David Moyes, quite sensibly really, is talking down his side's chances of a top-four finish. "We're going to have to swim the Channel to have any real shout," he said, which I personally think would be a tactical error, particularly at this stage in the season when players are liable to be suffering from fatigue.

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Good afternoon ...

Kick-off this afternoon is at the decidedly odd time of 2.05pm and Simon will be here from 1.30pm with team news and build-up. In the meantime, why not peruse our David Hytner's match preview in our squad-sheets section.